Reading is magic - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

What will happen in our second peasanthood

Reading is magic What will happen in our second peasanthood Sam Kriss Apr 12, 2026 325 Share I have a piece in the spring issue of Jacobin , on the decline of literacy and what might happen to politics once our minds are no longer intimately structured by the written word. Like all these essays, it quotes Walter Ong. Apparently, some of you people are unware that you can just go and read Walter Ong for yourselves, because as soon as the essay was published I received several thousand emails all saying the same thing, which is that you really wanted to read the piece but you didn’t have a subsc

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